Mind Quotes

It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy the mind.

He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her

Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence praise

When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my book for adults and assumed only adults, and possibly teenagers, would be drawn to it.

Denial was a weapon; it killed truth, numbed the mind, and I was a junkie.

I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.

I don't know who Donald Trump has in mind given that the circle of loyalists around him, the circle of people that he genuinely trusts is very small and getting smaller all the time.

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

I've never met anyone who has changed his mind or deepened his faith because he has been confronted with such angry condemnations.

It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where and how a story ended.

In the end it is the musician who actually plays the notes. The impresario - or the project leader - is only there to make sure that happens. That is a very different type of management mind-set.

The traditional managerial mind-set is an analytical mind-set. It is about creating accountability and defining responsibilities.

O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth!

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.

Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.

Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind.

One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.

The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.

When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.

Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.

I don't mind looking to the camera -​ it's people that throw me.

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind, as in those of war, that to think we shall conquer is to conquer.

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.

For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.

I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them.

I don't mind dancing the robot if the chemicals are ok, but beyond that the robot will not pull my strings.

As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively - especially when they are well-designed.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

I don't mind what I play, really.

When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge of your mind and think brave.

When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.

There is no doubt in my mind that Rudy Giuliani in the Senate will be a leader for the people of New York but also for the people of Arizona and the people all over this country.

When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music itself.

You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.

Calm of mind, all passion spent.

Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been.

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

The only thing I had in my mind [when I was 17 ] was that I was going to be a professional musician. So it was just the right environment.

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.